Seagate IronWolf 8 TB NAS Internal Hard Drive HDD – 3.5 Inch SATA 6 Gb/s 7200 RPM 256 MB Cache for RAID Network Attached Storage (ST8000VN0022)

I know this is a NAS drive, but I wanted to use it on desktop with heavy hdd usage (video editing). Unfortunately the drive arrived dead, kept beeping upon booting and couldn't be recognised. Have just returned it to Amazon third party supplier. Installation was tricky on Zalman Z3 plus case. I managed to find spare hard disk support rails from 3 years back. But left one didn't fit the hdd as this doesn't have 3 standard holes like other drives. It only has two holes at the ends, which makes it difficult to properly install & support in the hdd cage. I somehow managed to install it, but didn't work as it was never recognized and kept beeping. Changed power connectors & sata cables that were working with other seagate drive (barracuda). Am now looking for a replacement. Update: 7.May.2019: I was searching for a decent alternative and couldn't find one. So decided to order the same hdd from Amazon directly, by selecting the packaged option which was expensive compared to the OEM option. But I think that was worth it. Amazon sent it nicely packaged, and this time the installation went absolutely fine. HDD was recognised without an issue, and no beeping :). It has been working fine for over a couple of months now. No complaints. It is in the machine which is in our bedroom. If I leave the desktop switched on during night, odd read/write is audible. But not loud enough to cause trouble. Read/write speed is adequate for my video editing. I just need to set up a back-up with similar capacity drive so that I don't accidentally lose my content. Perhaps will buy another one & set it up as a mirror.

Excellent drives sustained writes of around 214 Mb/s I bought 4 of these drives to replace 4 4 Tb drives the data transfer was held up by the far slower 4 Tb WD RED 5200 RPM drives all had at least 3 TB transferred across in a single sitting. They did get hot so I would recommend a drive bay cooling fan but seem fast and reliable. I would recommend these above Barracuda 5200 RPM drives but I can't say weather the Barracuda Pro Drives are better as I have not tried them. Overall good purchase so far but as with all Hard Drives Time will tell as RELIABILITY over time is key especially on large HDD's

I ordered the Seagate 8 TB IronWolf 3.5 Inch 7200 RPM Internal Hard Drive from Box Ltd. The parcel arrived well packaged in a well protected in a tough plastic air bubble wrapper designed for hard drives, not standard bubble wrap. The drive took standard sata cables and is running on a old desktop 2nd gen i5 processor, which I will be using as a storage server (my cheap 'on demand' NAS), but the drive does look a bit thicker than my other drives, but it is 8Tb. The drive is fast (7200 prm) and quite and is working well; but this is just 2nd day of use. My only gripe is the courier delivered the parcel to the wrong address, but I was given information to track down the parcel from Box Ltd.

If Hard Drive manufacturers would stop with the 1TB = 1,000gb con, I'd be a lot happier, as those 24gbs add up. You get about 7.2TB for your 8TB money, but Seagate aren't the only ones, so that's just a general rant. The drive spins nice and quietly at a comparatively sedate 5,400rpm, which isn't leading edge even for HDD, but it probably contributes to its longevity, and with the data travelling over a 1gbps network at best, it's not really going to be stressed out delivering data. Why four stars? Seagate have only provided four mounting-holes on the side of the chassis, which just happens NOT to include the important middle(ish) ones that most caddies use to stablise the drive. As such, they're supported by only two screws in my new Synology NASs, which doesn't do much for my confidence. Fortunately, they won't be getting thrown about much after I've finished setting them up under my desk, so I think I'll live, and hopefully they will too.

Currently have two separate orders of two 8TB drives due to the limit on purchase set by Amazon so no need to review twice or in fact three times. This covers all my purchases of these 8TB drives. Current order one: drives were inserted into 2 separate 4 bay NAS units. After seven days one of these starting showing sector errors. Sent back for a replacement from Amazon. Current order two: one drive DOA. I am waiting now for replacements and hoping that the two remaining drives do not show issues. Worse still that the replacements have issues. I should add that i had another order of four of these 8TB drives in July 2017 and guess what one of these was DOA. Once again Amazon replaced it. So 37.5% failure rate upon purchase. I should add that currently the 3+1 drives are OK at present. Famous last words! I did not write a review then but potential customers should be aware that quality control seems hit and miss and has not improved across batches. I cannot believe that I am that unlucky with these specific items. These are things that you should not have to worry about when purchasing items let alone drives that are marketed with "..... users can confidently upload and download data to a NAS server" So much for "Once bitten twice shy" Additional Rather than issue a replacement drive as requested Amazon refunded me So I have to order another drive whilst my NAs is in a "degraded state" Update: Another disc is now giving reallocated sector errors from the recent orders. So that is 3 of the 4 discs defective. Down now from two stars to one star rating

8TB capacity for a reasonable price. These drives run hotter than my 5k prm nas drives but thats to be expected with them being 7k. I have been running these now for aalmost a year and no issues with SMART reports, no reallocated sectors etc. The onything to note with these disks is that they are definately louder on write than the WD Reds or Hitachie He drives i have them installed with. 2 year warranty - no complaints so far

I needed some big disks to populate my NAS and so I went for the Seagate 8TB, well actually 2. I need another 2! They have been in the NAS for nearly 12 months now and no murmur at all. Not only that I can access the data remotely even on my phone. I know that is part to the NAS but the disks work well and are reassuring that everything is in good order. I need to pull my finger out and get another 2!

Had previously ordered this item two times from different sellers and both times the drive was dead on arrival. This one arrived working with great packaging so it didn't get damaged in transit. So far drive has been has been quiet and fast, currently backing up all my system drives with ease. Would recommend if your a Data horder like me.

j'ai 3 dd nas seagate iron wolf de 8 to, j'en suis contente, ils sont solides, rapides notamment les 7200, un peu bruyants mais c'est le propre du stockage nas ou station d'accueil. Je les place invariablement sur l'un ou l'autre car ils font très correctement le job et ne chauffent pas. Je les recommande vivement car ils sont plus fiables que les dd classiques.

So far so good. Checked it with SeaTools - no problems. Shipping 400$ drive an leaving it at the door is NOT ok though. There should be signature required. - no middle mounting hole - runs a bit hot, but not loud at all. - performance has not been tested yet, but this will be a backup drive so shouldn't be any issues Other thoughts: Marked it as MBR disc by mistake (didn't know that MBR doesn't allow more than 4TB). WIN10 did not allow to switch MBR for GPT so I had to use Partition Minitool to do that. Update: Bought 2nd one and shoved both into RAID on Synology. These are great when on sale, but the price needs to come down some to be a preferred option. This should be good around $250-260

Well you could want them to work for a long time but so far these have been working fine in my NAS box. They were the best combination of size/price for a 2 bay NAS device since your only choice for RAID is mirroring. If you've purchased a 4 bay or higher NAS box consider 4G drives unless you need the capacity that 8G drivers will offer.

I bought a couple of these as well as some WD Reds and HGST Deskstars and ended up keeping these and the Reds and returning the Deskstars which, along with the Reds, were slower and noisier. Both make a regular clicking sound, but are otherwise quiet, quieter than the Ironwolf's in fact, though barely (the main noise the IronWolfs make is spinning up, where they're a bit louder). As far as I can tell, the clicking is normal, though WD/HGST (same company) can't seem to make up their minds, as one person that contacted them about it was told it's normal and another was told it's not. It seems to be due to the drive redistributing lubricant every few seconds, in an attempt to increase longevity, but considering I've never had an issue with that, I wasn't willing to put up with that noise for a possible increased lifespan (though possibly not), with no ability to even adjust its frequency, especially for the cost. I kept the Reds though, because they were much cheaper than either of the others, so for that price, I was willing to deal with it. Also, the Deskstars were slow, performing similarly to the Reds, despite being 7200RPM. Had it not been for the clicking (and possibly even despite the clicking), I would have considered returning the Seagates as well, simply due to the Reds being so much cheaper, but I decided to keep them because they are a good bit faster, and so I used them to replace my main data drives to give a bit of a speed boost there, not to mention more capacity. Interestingly, the Reds don't seem to click any more, so maybe it's something that goes away after a little while. Still, the Deskstars weren't worth the extra price, even if the clicking did subside. To sum up, if you want the best bang for your buck regardless of speed or noise, the Reds are the better choice (and even with the clicking it may not be audible from a few feet away, and it may go away). If you want speed, the IronWolfs are better. Of course, even a very slow SSD would still be much faster, but you're going to be much more limited on capacity and it's going to cost a lot more, so it really just depends on what you're going for. For my setup, paying a bit more for the IronWolfs for the extra speed for just the two drives I use for my main data was worth it, whereas my other drives don't need that and so I'm much more happy saving money and using Reds. (NB: I got my Reds through Best Buy as external drives and shelled them to use them internally. If you're not comfortable doing that, and just want to buy an internal drive, the Seagates are definitely the better buy, as they're cheaper and faster and don't click. While it's not a direct comparison, and therefore these drives aren't really in direct competition with the Best Buy Reds, they effectively are, and so it would be nice to see the pricing come down some to reflect that.) Another thing I want to mention is that many people are very anti-Seagate (some might call them WD fanboys), claiming they aren't reliable. Unfortunately, many of these people are basing these claims on the old BackBlaze test, which has been shown to be a poor source of reliability information due to the vast difference in environment between how those drives were tested and how drives are used in a home computer and, more importantly, because the poor reliability of the Seagate drives was due to the 3TB drives, which were very problematic, and not only for Seagate. And, of course, others are basing their claims on what others have said or because they had one Seagate drive fail, and they believe that means all Seagates are bad. Personally, I've used numerous Seagates (probably 20+) over the course of several years, and not one has failed. I've also done extensive research and digging into the BackBlaze and other data, and Seagate and WD are pretty much even, with HGST being slightly better (though I'm not sure if the difference is statistically significant). So I will buy either, depending on the value and performance, and don't worry much about the reliability difference between them. I just do extensive testing on each drive when it's new (I run it through a series of different hard drive tests: HGST DFT, WDDLG, Seagate SeaTools, and EaseUS Partition Master). This obviously takes a few days, but if a drive handles all that without issue, I can be fairly certain it's not gong to fail anytime soon, and typically drives either fail within a few weeks or last for years (bathtub curve). I also keep everything backed up, so a failure might cause some data loss, and will be a bit of a pain, but it won't be a disaster.

To replace my really old seagate barracuda. Fast delivery, works as intended